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This sketch was prepared at the request of the Bureau of Education 
for the International Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. The topics 
and the arrangement are in accordance with the recommendation of 
the Bureau, to secure uniformity, and for the convenience of examin- 
ation and comparison. The sketch, first printed in April for the Ohio 
Centennial Volume, has now been extended so as to include the col- 
lege year 1875-76. 

August, 1876. 



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MARIETTA COLLEGE. 



The historian of one of the most prominent of our state univer- 
sities, after describing the stormy times through which the institu- 
tion had passed, says: "But the best thing which can be said of the 
Law school is, that it has no history. No differences of opinion as 
to its management have ever been brought before the public; its 
classes have matriculated and graduated in succession, and nothing 
has arisen to furnish matter of discussion."* 

What is here said of that Law school may be said of Marietta 
> College. From its establishment to the present day it has been sin- 
gularly free from excitements and troubles, and it has pursued the 
even tenor of its way, aiming to give the best possible training to 
the young men who have sought its privileges. The trustees have 
never been divided into parties, and its faculty has ever been har- 
i^ monious. In the sense in which the word "history" is used in the 
^ paragraph quoted above, the college furnishes little material for an 
^ historical sketch, and perhaps this is the best thing which can be 
said of an institution of learning. 

The college at Marietta has always been closely identified with 
the place where it is located, and its name is much more than a mere 
designation. The beautiful town at the mouth of the Muskingum 

* Ten Brook's American State Universities and the University of Michi- 
gan, p. 227. 

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"was settled April 7, 1788, by the Ohio Company of Associates, an 
association composed for the most part of the officers of the Revo- 
lution. Of this company General Washington wrote : 

"No colony in America was ever settled under such favorable 
auspices as that which has just commenced on the banks of the 
Muskingum. Information, property, and strength will be its char- 
acteristics. I know many of the settlers personally, and there never 
were men better calculated to promote the welfare of such a com- 
munity." 

The relation of Greneral Rufus Putnam to the Ohio Company is a 
matter of history. He and General Benjamin Tupper issued the 
call for the meeting at Boston, March 1, 1786, which formed the as- 
sociation. He presided at that meeting, was chairman of the com- 
mittee appointed to draw up the articles of agreement, and was ap- 
pointed superintendent of the colony. The agent of the company 
to purchase land from Congress was Rev. Dr. Manasseh Cutler.* To 
his suggestions were probably due some of the best features of the 
celebrated ordinance of July 13, 1787, for the government of the 
territory north-west of the river Ohio, which was adopted by the 
Continental Congress while Dr. Cutler was negotiating the purchase. 
" This ordinance," says Judge Story, " is equally remarkable for the 
brevity and exactness of its text, and for its masterly display of the 
fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty." 

Among the members of this colony were Colonel Israel Putnam 
(son of General Israel), with his sons, Dudley Woodbridge, Paul 
Fearing, Joshua Gilman, Benjamin Ives Gilman, Colonel R. J. 
Meigs, with his son, R. J. Meigs, Jr., afterwards Governor of Ohio, 
and many others who were prominent men in the early history of the 
North-west. Not a few of these were men of liberal education, 
graduates of Harvard, Yale, Brown and Dartmouth. 

The college at Marietta was the natural outgrowth of this settle- 
ment by the Ohio Company. The descendants of the men of the 
Revolution and their associates in the Ohio Company, whose ideas 
of civil society were embodied in the immortal ordinance of 1787, 
were the founders of Marietta College, and they have been its warm- 

* The original contract (on parchment) for the land, made with Congress 
by Dr. C, and the deed (signed by George Washington and Thomas Jeffer- 
son) conveying 913,883 acres to Rufus Putnam and others in trust for the 
Ohio Company, have been deposited in the library of Marietta College by 
the Hon. William Rufus Putnam, grandson of General Rufus, and a trustee 
of the college. 



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est and most steadfast friends and its most generous benefactors. To 
speak of no others, the families of the two Putnams- General Israel 
and General Rufus— of Dr. Manasseh Cutler and General Benjamin 
Tupper, have furnished eight trustees of the college, six of whom 
still hold to it this relation. 

NAME AND CHARTER. 

The charter of Marietta College bears date February 14, 1835. 
The institution had, however, been in operation a short time under 
another name.' An act of incorporation had been obtained Decem- 
ber 17, 1832, for "The Marietta Collegiate Institute and Western 
Teachers' Seminary." This charter gave no power to confer degrees, 
and contained a section authorizing any future legislature to amend 
or repeal it. A new charter was obtained two years later, free from 
the repealing clause, and giving the power to confer degrees. 

The same gentlemen were named as corporators in both charters, 
viz: Luther G. Bingham, John Cotton, Caleb Emerson, John Mills, 
John Crawford, Arius Nye, Douglas Putnam, Jonas Moore, and 
Anselm T. Nye, though two of them, Messrs. Arius Nye and John 
Crawford, retired from the Board about the time the college charter 
was obtained. 

These gentlemen, and their successors, were " constituted a body 
corporate and politic with perpetual succession, with all the powers 
and privileges incident to a corporation, to be known and distin- 
guished by the name and style of 'The Trustees of Marietta 
College.'" 

There is no restriction or requirement as to residence, religious 
belief, or any other qualification. The state has no management or 
control of the institution, and no state official is a trustee ex-officio. 
It is not under the direction of any religious denomination, nor has 
any ecclesiastical body the power to appoint or nominate trustees. 
It was intended to be an institution where sound learning should be 
cultivated under the best religious influences ; a Christian college, 
controlled by a board of trustees, with power to fill all vacancies in 
their body. 

The act of incorporation provides for the establishment "in the 
County of Washington " of an institution, etc. It was intended to 
be at Marietta, the capital of the county, the place where the settle- 
ment was commenced April 7, 1788. The idea of off"ering the loca- 
tion to be determined by competitive bids was never entertained. 



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There were no reservations as to free scholarships, and no require- 
ments as to instruction in particular studies. The charter provides 
for the establishment of an institution " for the education of youth 
in the various branches of useful knowledge " 

The corporation were empowered to confer on those whom they 
might deem worthy " such honors and degrees as are usually con- 
ferred in similar institutions." 

MODIFICATIONS OP THE CHARTER. 

The charter to "Marietta College" of February 14, 1835, has 
been modified but once. This amendment, made December 21, 1844, 
authorized the board of trustees to increase the number of members 
at their discretion, provided it should not consist of more than 
twenty-five. It also authorized the board to prescribe by by-law in 
what manner a quorum for the transaction of business should be 
constituted. 

The full number of members has never been reached ; the present 
number of elected members — the president of the college is a mem- 
ber ex-officio^ and has been annually elected to the presidency of the 
board of trustees — is twenty-one. A quorum consists of seven. 

SITE. 

Marietta is situated at the mouth of the Muskingum river, one of 
the largest northern tributaries of the Ohio. It is the capital of 
Washington County, which was the first organized in the North-west 
Territory. Marietta is nearly due south from Cleveland, and a few 
miles north of east from Cincinnati. It has steamboat communica- 
tion with all places on the Ohio, and with those on the Muskingum 
as far as Zanesville. The Marietta & Cincinnati, and the Marietta, 
Pittsburgh & Cleveland Railways, with their connections, furnish 
direct railway communication with all parts of the state. 

GROUNDS AND PREMISES. 

The town of Marietta is laid out in blocks, 810 feet long by 370 
wide. The college buildings occupy one of these blocks, which, 
situated in a quiet part of the town, and yet near the post-office and 
business portions, is perhaps the most eligible site for the purpose 
which the town affords. The president's house is on an adjoining 
block, on a lot 120 feet by 225. 



OTHER LANDS. 

Donations in land have occasionally been made to the college, and 
some parcels are now held in Ohio, Illinois and Missouri. Such 
property has been disposed of as soon as fair prices could be obtained. 
For the most part, donations in land have proved profitable to the 
institution. 

BUILDINGS. 

The edu<3ational work of the college proper was carried on, till 
1850, in a single building of very moderate dimensions It is 75 
feet by 40, four stories high, with a basement and an attic. The 
basement has long since ceased to be used for recitation rooms, as 
originally designed. The building is now used for students' rooms^ 
except the Latin recitation room and the Reading room. It was 
erected in 1832. 

The second building is 75 feet by 53, three stories high, with a 
tower. It was erected in 1850, according to the plans and under 
the supervision of Hon. R. E. Harte, of Marietta. On the first 
floor are the President's lecture room, the Mathematical room, the 
Chemical lecture room, and a working room for the Chemical depart- 
ment. About half of the second story is occupied as a room for the 
college cabinet and apparatus. There are also the Grreek room, the 
Rhetorical room, and the ''Hildreth Cabinet." In this last are de- 
posited the specimens in Natural History and Geology presented to 
the college by the late S. P. Hildreth, LL. D. The two literary 
societies occupy the third floor. 

This building, whose corner-stone was laid in 1845, with an address 
by Hon. Lewis Cass, who was a citizen of Marietta in his early man- 
hood, was erected through the liberality of the people of Marietta. 
The room containing the cabinet and apparatus is named ''Slocomb 
Hall," from William Slocomb, Esq., one of the principal donors. 

The third building of the group was finished in 1870, and was 
erected by the alumni and other students of the college. Its cost, 
including the fitting up of the two rooms for the libraries of the two 
literary societies, was about $25,000. It is two stories high, and 
75 by 50 feet on the ground. The lower story, which is 16J feet 
high, is divided by a wide hall into two equal parts, one of which, 
intended for an Alumni Hall, is at present used as a Chapel. The 
other half furnishes two fine rooms for the society libraries. 

The whole of the second story, which is 20 feet high, is devoted 



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to the college library. The room is surrounded with a gallery, and 
has 25 alcoves, each lighted with its own window. 

On another part of the grounds is a building used for the prepar- 
atory department exclusively, thus keeping this department entirely 
distinct from the college. This building is of wood, while the others 
are of brick. The three forming the college group are on an ele- 
vated portion of the grounds, with a beautiful slope in front. 

It will be seen that the outlay for buildings has been very mod- 
erate. The trustees have acted on the principle that the real efl&- 
ciency of an institution of learning is in men, with books and ap- 
paratus to work with, rather than in buildings. Accommodation of 
this kind has been provided when the necessity became urgent, but 
there has been no ambition to erect fine edifices. 

ORIGIN AND CHANGES. 

It has already been stated that Marietta College owes its existence 
and its success to the character of the men who began, at this point, 
the settlement of the North-west. There was a deep conviction on 
the part of many of the most intelligent men in South-eastern Ohio 
that a literary institution of high order was essential to the educa- 
tional and religious interests of a large region, of which Marietta 
was the center. This conviction was confirmed by the opinions of 
men of high standing, both West and East. 

The enterprise was undertaken by men who understood that a long 
and arduous work was before them. They knew that an institution 
conducted with reference to genuine and thorough culture, with no 
resort to superficial methods or temporary expedients, must be of 
slow growth. They had but moderate means from which to draw, 
but their gifts were most generous. They gave, expecting to give 
again and again, as they have done. They believed that such an in- 
stitution as^they proposed to establish was indispensable, and their 
faith in its success was strong from the beginning. 

Of the seven trustees who continued to act under the charter of 
1835, one left the board in 1845, on his removal to the East, three 
have deceased, and three are still connected with the college. 

Rev. Luther G-. Bingham, a native of Cornwall, Vermont, and 
graduate of Middlebury College, was pastor of the Congregational 
Church at Marietta, though a member of the Presbytery of Athens, 
when the college was founded. In connection with Mr. Mansfield 
French, he had established a high school at Marietta, and the](build- 



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ing they had erected became the property of the college. Mr. Bing- 
ham left Marietta for Cincinnati in 1838, and a few years later re- 
moved to Brooklyn, New York. He was very active in the early 
history of the college, and his connection with it as trustee con- 
tinued till 1845. 

Hon. John Cotton, M. D., a lineal descendant of the distinguished 
clergyman of that name, who came to Boston in 1633, was born at 
Plymouth, Massachusetts. September 9, 179!^, and was graduated at 
Harvard in 1810. He established himself as a physician at Marietta, 
and remained here till his death, April 2, 1847. Dr. Cotton filled 
many positions of usefulness, and was a most valuable member of the 
board of trustees. He was elected president of the board at its or- 
ganization in December, 1832, and continued president till 1838. 

Caleb Emerson, Esq., was born at Ashley, Massachusetts, August 
21, 1779, and came to Ohio in 1808. He was a lawyer by profes- 
sion, and a man of philosophic mind, enriched by very wide reading. 
He married a daughter of Captain William Dana, one of the pio- 
neers, whose descendants are numerous and of the highest respecta- 
bility. Mr. Emerson was a trustee till his death, March 14, 1853, 

Jonas Moore, M. D., another of the founders of the college, was 
also a native of Massachusetts, born March 9, 1781. His early man- 
hood was spent at the South, but for many years he was a citizen of 
Marietta. He was a warm friend of the college, and gave gener- 
ously to its funds. Dr. Moore died March 24, 1856. 

The three surviving founders, John Mills, Douglas Putnam and 
Anselm T. Nye, are all natives of Marietta. They have all been 
prominent business men, and identified with the most important en- 
terprises of the place. Colonel Mills was treasurer of the college 
from its founding till 1850, rendering this service gratuitously, the 
treasury being also almost always overdrawn, sometimes to the 
amount of several thousand dollars. Mr. Putnam has been the sec- 
retary of the board from the beginning. Both have been members 
of the executive committee from the first, and they are the two 
largest donors. Colonel Mills gave SI, 000 when the college was 
founded; his last gift was $10,000. The sum of his donations is 
nearly 822,000. Mr. Putnam's first gift was S200, and his last 
$25,000; the whole amounting to about S47.000. He now proposes 
to give $50,000 more, provided a certain additional amount shall be 
secured. 

Between 1835 and 1845, when the amendment in the charter 



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authorized an increase of members, there was but one addition to the 
board — Rev. Addison Kingsbury, D. D., of Zanesville, who was 
elected in 1838, and who is still a member. Of those elected in 1845 
and subsequently, the following gentlemen remained members till 
their decease: Henry Starr, Esq., 1845-51 ; Rev. Charles M Putnam, 
1845-70; William Slocomb, Esq., 1847-73; Noah L. Wilson, Esq., 
1849-67 ; Rev. Thomas Wickes, D. D., 1849-70. A number have 
resigned, in consequence of change of residence, viz: Rev. Jacob 
Little, D. D., 1845-70; Rev. E. Buckingham, D. D., 1845-61 (sub- 
sequently a trustee of Western Reserve College) ; Rev. Alexander 
Duncan, 1845-60 ; Rev. H. L Hitchcock, D. D , 1846-55 (then 
elected President of Western Reserve College) ; Rev Franklin S. 
Howe, 1847-54; Rev. Samuel W. Fisher, D. D., 1854-59 (when he 
became President of Hamilton College) ; Henry B. Carrington 
LL D., 1855-66. 

The whole number of elected trustees has been forty-two — sixteen 
clergymen and twenty six laymen. Six are alumni of the college, 
viz : Rev. George M. Maxwell, D. D., of the class of 1842 ; William 
Sturges, Esq., 1845 ; William H. Blymyer, Esq., 1852; Hon. Alfred 
T. aoshorn, 1854; ^^ Col. Douglas Putnam, Jr., 1859 ; and Gen. 
Rufus R. Dawes, 1860. 

The "Collegiate Institute " went into operation in the autumn of 
1833. Mr. Henry Smith, who was at the head of a high school in 
Marietta when the first charter was obtained, was elected Professor 
of Latin and Greek in the winter of 1832-33. In May, 1833, Mr. 
Milo P. Jewett was made Professor in the Teachers' Department, and 
in August Mr. D. Howe Allen was chosen Professor of Mathematics, 
and Mr. Samuel Maxwell, Principal of the Preparatory department. 
A Freshman class was formed that fall, but becoming reduced in 
numbers, its members fell back into the next class, which was gradu- 
ated in 1838. 

The relations of these gentlemen to the institution remained un- 
changed under the charter of 1835, Professor Jewett having been 
transferred in the summer of 1834 to the chair of Rhetoric and 
Oratory. In the spring of 1835, Rev. Joel H Linsley, of Boston, 
was elected president. Thus, when the Collegiate Institute became 
"Marietta College," the faculty consisted of five members, a President; 

* As these sketches are prepared for the Centennial Exposition, the writer 
takes pleasure in noting that the Director-General of the Exposition is both 
an alumnus and a trustee of this college. 



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who was also Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, a 
Professor of Languages, a Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, a 
Professor of Mathematics, and a Principal of the Preparatory De- 
partment. 

President Linsley remained at the head of the institution till 1846, 
when he accepted the pastorate of a church in Grreenwich, Connecti- 
cut. He devoted himself to the duties of his office with the utmost 
zeal and fidelity, rendering fruitful service both as an instructor and 
in the general work of administration. All who knew him will 
recognize the truthfulness of the words penned by his successor con- 
cerning him : 

"To the deep-toned piety and spiritual fidelity of Dr. Linsley, the 
institution is largely indebted for the internal religious influence 
which prevailed, and the frequent and powerful revivals of religion 
which blessed it during the period of his presidency; and to his 
earnest conviction of the importance of the institution to the cause 
of Christ, and his stirring appeals from the pulpit, is to be ascribed 
much of the public confidence which it has secured, and the favor 
which it has met with from the friends of Christian education, both 
East and West."* 

President Linsley was succeeded in the presidency by Professor 
Henry Smith, who had been Professor of Languages from the found- 
ing of the college. The institution was fortunate in all the mem- 
bers of its first faculty. Four of them came directly from the 
Theological Seminary at Andover, and their subsequent success 
attests the good judgment of the trustees in their appointment. 
Dr. Smith remained in the college longer than any of his associates, 
and his department of instruction furnished the opportunity to leave 
a decided impress upon the institution in its forming period. While 
those associated with him in laying the foundations of the college 
were men of fine ability and high attainments, some of them emi- 
nently so, it is not doing them injustice to say that the college is 
more indebted to him than to any other of its instructors for shap- 
ing its character, and making it a place of genuine and thorough 
culture. Few men have combined in a higiher degree than Dr. 



* Dr. Linsley was born at Cornwall, Vermont, July 16, 1790; was gradu- 
ated at Middlebury College, 1811 ; was tutor from 1813 to 1815 ; practiced law 
at Middlebury 1816-22; pastor of the South Congregational Church, Hart- 
ford, Connecticut, 1824-32; pastor of Park Street Churcli, Boston, Massachu- 
setts, 1832-35: president of Marietta College, 1835-46; pastor of the Second 
Congregational Church at Greenwich till his death, March 22, 1868. He 
received the degree of D. D. from Middlebury in 1837, and was a trustee of 
Yale College from 1855 till his death. 



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Smith broad and exact scholarship, ability in instruction, and emi- 
nence in the pulpit. He resigned the presidency in the winter of 
1854-5, and accepted an invitation to the chair of Sacred Rhetoric 
in Lane Seminary, with which institution he has been connected up 
to the present time, with the exception of a few years at Buffalo, 
New York, as pastor of the North Presbyterian Church * 

Professor Jewett, (a graduate of Dartmouth in 1828,) left the col- 
lege in 1838. For many years he was at the head of a female sem- 
inary in Alabama, and then removed to Poughkeepsie. New York. 
It was during his residence there that Mr. Matthew Vassar decided 
to appropriate a portion of his property to the founding of a college 
for young ladies ; and it was, doubtless, owing in part at least, to 
the influence of Professor Jewett, that this munificent gift, origin- 
ally intended for another purpose, took an educational direction. 
He was appointed the first president of Vassar College, and visited 
Europe to examine institutions with reference to methods of in- 
struction and courses of study. He is now living in Wisconsin. 
The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on Professor Jewett in 
1861, by the University of Rochester, New York. 

Professor D. Howe Allen (Dartmouth, 1829) was transferred from 
the chair of Mathematics to that of Rhetoric and Oratory, at his 
own request, in 1838, on the resignation of Professor Jewett. His 
fitness for successful work as an instructor, and his personal influence 
over young men, were remarkable, and his loss was seriously felt when 
he accepted an invitation to Lane Seminary in the early autumn of 
1840. As Professor of Sacred Rhetoric, and afterward of Theology, 
he was eminently successful. Professor Allen was born at Lebanon, 
New Hampshire, July 8, 1808. The honorary degree of Doctor of 
Divinity was conferred upon him by Marietta College in 1848. His 
connection with Lane Seminary remained till his death, though for 
some years he was laid aside from active duty. He died November 
9, 1870. 

Professor Samuel Maxwell (Amherst, 1829) was connected with 
the institution for more than twenty years, for the greater part of 
the time being in charge of the Academy or Preparatory department. 
He was a man of great personal excellence, and was most conscien- 
tious in the discharge of his duties. In 1855 he relinquished that 

■^•President Smith was graduated at Middlebury College in 1827, and was 
tutor there from 1828 to 1830. He received the honorary degree of D. D. 
at Middlebury, in 1847, and that of LL. D. at Marietta in 1874. 



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work, and established a boarding school for lads. He was born at 
Lebanon, Connecticut, March 9, 1804, and died at Marietta, January 
24, 1867. 

Of the original faculty of five,* two only arc now living — Doc- 
tors Henry Smith and Milo P. Jewett. The following gentlemen 
have been professors for various periods, but are not now in active 
duty: Professor John Kendrick, a graduate of Dartmouth, 1826, 
and valedictorian of the class to which Chief Justice Chase belonged, 
succeeded Professor Allen in the chair of Rhetoric, etc., in 1840, 
having for some years previously been a member of the faculty of 
Kenyon College. He was transferred to the department of Ancient 
Languages when Dr. Smith became president in 1846. In 1866 the 
department was divided. Dr. Kendrick retaining the Greek. He re- 
signed in 1873, having been in active service in the college for thirty- 
three years. Since that time he has been Professor Emeritus. f 

Professor Hiram Bingham, a graduate of Middlebury, 1839, oc- 
cupied the chair of Greology and Chemistry from 1846 to 1849, 
since which time he has been in the work of the ministry in North- 
ern Ohio. 

Professor Ebenezer B. Andrews, an alumnus of the college, of the 
class of 1842, was elected to the department of Geology, etc., in 
1851. With the exception of two years in the army as Colonel of 
the 36th 0. V. I., he continued to discharge the duties of this pro- 
fessorship till 1870, when he resigned to enter the service of the 
State in the Geological Survey.J 

Professor Addison Ballard (Williams College, 1842) was Profes- 
sor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy from 1855 to 1857, 
having previously held the chair of Rhetoric at Williams College. 
He is now Professor at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania.^ 

Dr. Ballard was succeeded by Professor Evan W. Evans (Yale, 
1851), who occupied the Mathematical chair till 1865. On the or- 
ganization of Cornell University he was elected Professor of Higher 
Mathematics in that institution. He died in 1874. 

In 1860 Mr. Edward P. Walker (Marietta, 1856) was appointed 

*It is worthy of note that three of these five were the valedictorians of 
their respective classes in college. 

tDartmouth College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws in 
1870. 

JThe degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on him by his Alma Mater 
in 1870. 

§He received the degree of D. D. from Williams in 1867. 



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Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature. He had been tutor 
from 1856 to 1857. The hopes cherished by his friends and asso- 
ciates, that a long career of usefulness was before him, were cut off 
by his death, December 27, 1861. 

After the resignation of Dr. E. B. Andrews, in 1870, the vacancy 
was filled by the appointment of Mr. William B. Graves (Amherst, 
1862). Professor G-raves had charge of the Chemical and Geological 
department till 1874, when he accepted an appointment in the Agri- 
cultural College at Amherst, Massachusetts. 

The gentlemen named above are all, besides the present faculty, 
who have held permanent professorships in the college, though a 
number have been acting professors for short periods, or have been 
lecturers. George O. Hildreth, M. D., lectured on Chemistry and 
Mineralogy from 1840 to 1843. Timothy S Pinneo, M. D., was 
acting professor of Mathematics in 1843-4. Professor Alonzo Gray 
gave instruction in 1844-5, and Professor W. W. Mather in the 
same department in 1845-6. Professor George R. Rosseter had 
charge of the Mathematical department in 1850-1, and Professor 
William Porter, now of Beloit College, gave instruction in the 
Classical department from 1850 to 1852. Charles H. Raymond, 
M. D., lectured on Chemistry in 1850-1, and Rev Charles S. LeDuc 
gave instruction in Mathematics in 1852-3. Professor Erastus 
Adkins, formerly of'Shurtleff College, gave instruction in Greek from 
1857 to 1859, and in Greek and Rhetoric from 1864 to 1866. Pro- 
fessor John N. Lyle, now of Westminster College, Missouri, had 
charge of the department of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy 
from 1866 to 1868 

The present faculty numbers eight, including the principal of the 
academy and the tutor, four of them being graduates of the college 

President Israel W. Andrews (Williams College, 1837) was ap- 
pointed tutor in the fall of 1838, and in April, 1839, was elected 
Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. Entering upon 
the duties of that department at the beginning of the next college 
year, he continued them till 1855, when he was called to the presi- 
dency.* 

Professor George R. Rosseter (Marietta, 1843) was tutor from 1845 
to 1847 ; acting Professor of Mathematics in 1850-1 ; principal of 



*The degree of D. D. was given him by Williams College in 1856, and 
that of LL. D. by Iowa College in 1874. 



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the academy from 1864 to 1868, and then was elected to the chair 
of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Astronomy. 

Professor John L. Mills (Yale, 1855) was tutor at Yale from 1858 
to 1861, Professor of Mathematics, etc., here from 1865 to 1866, 
and was then transferred to the chair of Latin. 

Professor David K. Beach (Marietta, 1859) was principal of the 
academy for two years, from 1859 to 1861, and in 1869 was appointed 
Professor of Moral Philosophy and Rhetoric. 

Professor S. Stanhope Orris (College of New Jersey, 1862) was 
tutor at Princeton from 1865 to 1866, and was elected Professor of 
Greek in 1873, on the retirement of Dr. Kendrick.* 

Professor Thomas D. Biscoe, a graduate of Amherst in 1863, 
tutor there one year, and Walker Instructor in Mathematics from 
1866 to 1869, was appointed Professor of Chemistry and Geology in 
1874. 

Mr. George R. Gear, an alumnus of the college in 1867, has been 
principal of the academy since 1871, and the present tutor is Mr. 
Charles K. Wells, of the class of 1874. 

It has been stated above, that Professor Maxwell, the first princi- 
pal of the academy, continued in charge of it till 1855. Since that 
time some graduate of the college has been principal, with the ex- 
ception of two years, from 1862 to 1864, when it was under the care 
of Rev. Edward F. Fish, a graduate of Hamilton College. 

Of the tutors, all have been alumni of the college except for the 
year 1838-9. The whole number of instructors — presidents, pro- 
fessors, principals of the academy and tutors— has been forty -four, 
of whom twenty-nine have been Marietta graduates. The institu- 
tion has thus honored its own educational work by calling back its 
alumni, and committing to them the responsible work of instruction. 

The experience of the college is decidedly favorable to the election 
of young men as professors. It has been seen that four of the five 
gentlemen composing the first faculty came directly from the Theo- 
logical Seminary. Of the seventeen different professors, five only 
had been engaged in other professional work. These five had been 
pastors of churches, but, with one exception, that of President 
Linsley, their periods of clerical service had been short, ranging 
from two to six years. All but one entered upon their duties as 
professors at an early age. Eleven of the seventeen had been tutors. 

*The honorary degree of Doctor of Philosopliy was conferred on Profes- 
sor Orris by the College of New Jersey in 1875. 



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here or elsewhere, before becoming professors. Two of the three 
presidents were elected from the corps of professors ; in both cases 
men who had come here in early manhood. The aggregate time 
spent by these two in the work of instruction in the college has 
amounted to sixty years. 

One feature of the college was modified after a few years' experi- 
ence. When the institution was opened, provision was made for 
daily labor, agricultural and mechanical, and each student was re- 
quired to work three hours a day in summer, and two in winter. As 
early as 1838 the shops were directed to be rented, and manual 
labor became optional. The last mention of it in the annual cata- 
logue is found in that for 1842-3. 

PLAN OF EDUCATION AND COURSE OF STUDY. 

In founding the institution it was the purpose to establish a gen- 
uine college of the New England type. It has been seen that all the 
members of the original faculty had been educated in the Eastern 
colleges, and the same is true of those trustees who had received 
a liberal education. Of the seventeen who have held permanent 
chairs in the college, three were graduates of Middlebury College, 
three of Dartmouth, two of Amherst, two of Williams, two of Yale, 
one of Princeton, and four of Marietta. The institution was thus 
molded after the New England type, and its course of study and 
general plan continue to be substantially the same as in those colleges. 

At first special arrangements were made for the instruction of 
teachers ; but that department soon took the form of the scientific 
course, found in so many colleges, embracing all the branches pur- 
sued in the classical course except the Ancient Languages, with 
some additional work in Mathematics and its applications. But 
while this course, though inferior to the classical, was good in itself, 
as is shown in the case of the few students who completed it, the diffi- 
culty was that the students did not remain to finish it. Whatever 
may have been the cause, this was the fact. While the regular 
course was completed by sixty per cent, of those who entered it, this 
short course of three years was completed by only six per cent. It 
became evident that such a course was of no advantage to the college, 
and was a doubtful good in any educational sense ; as in all proba- 
bility many who studied awhile in the short course would have com- 
pleted the longer one had there been no other. It was given up 
about twenty years since. There have been occasional students 



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who, while not candidates for a degree, have been permitted to re- 
cite in certain studies for which they were fitted. The experience 
of the college is decidedly adverse to any alternative courses of study 
which are not substantially equal in time and degree of culture to 
the full classical course. 

With scarcely an exception, the professors have given no instruction 
in the Preparatory department, nor have their energies been ex- 
hausted in attempting to carry on a number of parallel courses of 
study. Their strength has been concentrated upon the proper under- 
graduate course, and they believe that the result has shown the 
wisdom of this policy. The requisites for admission have been grad- 
ually increased, and such changes have been made from time to time 
in the studies of the course as experience and the progress of the 
times have made desirable. 

The optional system has not been regarded with favor. The first 
president, in his inaugural address, characterizes the theory "that 
each should follow his predilections, «,nd pursue those studies only 
for which he has the most relish and the best capacity, as fallacious 
in theory and mischievous in practice." The same system was also 
discussed by the present president at his inauguration in 1855. He 
says: "This college has not wasted her energies, or jeoparded the 
interests of her young men by any rash experiments She has pur- 
sued that course which the experience of the past and the wisdom 
of the most learned have pronounced to be the best adapted to se- 
cure the highest and the most symmetrical development of the 
human intellect." Whatever changes have taken place, the princi- 
ples underlying and guiding have remained the same. Marietta has 
no hesitation in declaring a decided preference for the methods 
adopted at Yale and Williams over those at Charlottesville and 
Ithaca. 

In matters of internal arrangement, each class has sixteen literary 
exercises a week, including the declamation on Wednesday afternoon, 
which all the students attend. These daily exercises are not conse- 
cutive, the first being at about half past seven o'clock, the second at 
eleven, and the third at half past three in winter, and half past four 
in summer. The class system has been carefully maintained in dis- 
tinction from that which would allow a Freshman, or it may be a 
Preparatory student, to recite with the upper classes, perhaps with 
the Seniors. The custom, well-nigh universal forty years ago, 
of attending morning prayers and recitation before breakfast, and at 
a very early hour, was changed at Marietta in 1840. 



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RELIGIOUS INFLUENCES. 

The founders of the college were religious men, and their purpose 
was to establish a Christian institution. The design and aim have 
been to furnish the best facilities for instruction in all the branches 
of a liberal, non-professional education, and at the same time to bring 
the students under religious influences. A leading object was the 
training of young men for the work of the gospel ministry. One of 
the first donations was the sum of of $5,000, given by Deacon Sam- 
uel Train, of Medford, Massachusetts, toward a fund for aiding the 
students who were preparing for this work. 

But the institution is under no ecclesiastical control, and neither 
charter nor by-law imposes any restriction in the election of trustees 
or professors. The first board of trustees, nine in number, had in it 
members of five different denominations. And the fund spoken of 
above is used to aid young men of promise belonging to any evan- 
gelical denomination. 

The chapel services, held every morning, and attendance upon 
which is obligatory, consist usually of reading the Scriptures, sing- 
ing, and prayer. Until 1868 there was a chapel service every even- 
ing also. There is no chaplain, and on the Sabbath students attend 
those churches in town which their parents prefer, there being no 
preaching service in the chapel. All the classes have a Biblical ex- 
ercise on Monday morning. 

Thirty -seven per cent, of the alumni have studied for the ministry. 
It may also be stated that seventy-six per cent, were professedly re- 
ligious men at the time of their graduation, and that twenty-four 
per cent, were converted in college. 

PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT. 

From the first, a separate department has been in operation, with 
the object of preparing young men for college. Since 1840 it has 
been known as the Marietta Academy. It has a permanent princi- 
pal, who receives the same salary as a professor in the college. The 
course of study occupies three years, and the school, in its plan and 
appointments, is specially designed for those seeking a liberal edu- 
cation, though others are received. Of those admitted to the Fresh- 
man class, about three-fourths on the average are prepared at this 
academy. The average annual attendance, as shown from all the 
catalogues, is 75; the average for the last ten years is 103. 



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LIBRARIES, CABINETS, ETC. 

As early as December, 1834, Professor Henry Smith obtained 
leave of absence, with continuance of salary, to go to Europe for the 
purpose of study. His departure was delayed, however, till the 
summer of 1836, and meanwhile efforts were made to raise funds for 
the purchase of books and apparatus. Most opportunely, though 
quite unexpectedly, the sum was increased by the gift of $1,000 from 
the estate of Samuel Stone, Townsend, Massachusetts. A like 
amount was given to e-ich of several colleges, for the purchase of 
books. The portion coming to Marietta was expended for philo- 
logical works. Dr. Smith says : "These books were carefully selected 
and purchased, for the most part, by a personal attendance upon the 
great auction sales of Leipsic and Halle. In this way the institution 
came into possession of one of the most valuable collections of classi- 
cal works in the West, and for a sum probably less than one-third the 
price it would have cost in this country." 

In 1850 a special effort was made by a few friends to increase the 
library. Mr. Douglas Putnam gave $2,500, Mr. N. L. Wilson 
$1,500, Mr. William Sturges $1,250, Col. John Mills S1,000, Mr. 
Winthrop B. Smith $500, and others in smaller sums. President 
Smith expended most of this money abroad, thus increasing largely 
the number of works needed in the several departments of instruction. 
Subsequent purchases have been made from year to year, almost all 
with reference to the wants of the professors. The college library 
is thus largely professorial, the literary societies providing for the 
current literature. 

In 1850 Dr. Samuel P. Hildreth, an eminent naturalist of Marietta, 
gave to the college his cabinet of minerals, etc., together with some 
500 volumes, chiefly scientific and historical. He continued to add 
to this collection till his death, in 1863, since which time his son, 
G-eorge 0. Hildreth, M. D., has made numerous additions. 

The college has also received many valuable works from Hon. 
William A. Whittlesey and Hon. William P. Cutler, both of Marietta. 
From various other sources the college has received books and pam- 
phlets relating to this part of the West, and to the governmental 
history of the State and nation, making it unusually rich in works of 
this character. 

The number of volumes in the college library, including the 
Hildreth collection, is over 15,000, and the whole number in the 
various libraries is about 27,000. 



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Besides the collections in the "Hildreth Cabinet," which are in a 
room by themselves, the college has a valuable collection of fossils, 
minerals, shells, etc. The whole have recently been arranged, and 
the number of specimens is over 30,000. 

The apparatus, though not extensive, includes some valuable in- 
struments. Among them are a Holtz machine, induction coil, electric 
lamp, absorption spectroscope, binocular microscope, an air-pump of 
great power, a fine Atwood's machine, a theodolite, sextant, etc. 
There is also a quadrant belonging to and long used by General 
Bufus Putnam, who held the office of Surveyor-General under 
President Washington. It was given to the college by his grandson, 
Hon. William Kufus Putnam. 

COLLEGE SOCIETIES. 

■ The two literary societies, the Alpha Kappa and the Psi Gamma, 
were formed in December, 1839. They took the place of the Phi 
Sigma, a society with two branches. They have large and handsome 
halls; the Alpha Kappa frescoed, the Psi Gamma stuccoed, with 
stained glass windows. The Alpha Kappa library has 5,130 volumes, 
the Psi Gamma 4,560. The initiation fee is S5.00 in each ; the 
annual dues $5.25 in one, and $4.50 in the other. The weekly 
meeting is on the forenoon of Saturday. New students are chosen 
by the societies alternately, keeping the number of members substan- 
tially equal. 

The Society of Inquiry is a religious organization, formed June 5, 
1833. It has a library of about 1,000 volumes, and a collection of 
curiosities illustrating heathen customs. The present number of 
members is 30. 

There are two secret societies — the Alpha Di Gamma, formed in 
1859, with 18 members at present, and a total of 148; and the Alpha 
Sigma Phi, formed in 1860, having 20 members, and a total of 150. 
There is a chapter of the Delta Upsilon, an anti-secret fraternity, 
formed in 1870, with 21 members, and a total of 66. 

An Alumni Association was formed in 1841, and has been main- 
tained with much interest. 

In 1860, a chapter — the Gamma — of the Phi Beta Kappa Society 
was organized at Marietta, by Dr. John Kendrick (Dartmouth), Gen. 
T. C. H. Smith (Harvard), and Professor E. W Evans (Yale). 

A Boating Association has been in existence a few years. The 
Muskingum river, on which there is slack-water navigation, furnishes 
unsurpassed facilities. Number of members, 61. 



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GRADUATES. 

The first class was graduated in 1838. From that time the series 
has been unbroken. The whole number of Bachelors of Arts is 421. 
Eleven have completed a shorter course, and are entered as Bach- 
elors of Science on the triennial. 

The class (regular) of 1838 numbered 4, that of 1875 numbered 
22. No class has been larger than that of 1875, and none smaller 
thau that of 1838. 

It has been stated before that sixty per cent, of those entering the 
regular classes have completed the course. Taking all the catalogues 
published, extending from 1837-38 to 1875-76, the ratio of Seniors 
to Freshmen is as 67 to 100. The ratio between the whole number 
of graduates and the whole number of Freshmen is found to be the 
same — 67 to 100. 

The alumni have come from twenty-five States, from the District 
of Columbia, from Canada, and from England. Ohio has furnished 
290, Virginia (including West Virginia) 19, New York 12, Indiana 
and Kentucky each 11, etc. Washington County, of which Marietta 
is the capital, has furnished 134, or thirty-two per cent, of the whole. 
And for the last few years the catalogues show an average of forty 
students from this county, being one for each one thousand of the 
population. 

The graduates are distributed among the professions and occupa- 
tions as follows : clergymen, 37 per cent. ; business men, 25 per cent. ; 
lawyers, 17 per cent. ; physicians, 8 per cent. ; teachers, 8 per cent. ; 
all others, 5 per cent. 

Seventy-one of the alumni are the sons of clergymen — seventeen per 
cent. In an unusually large number of cases the college has had 
difi"erent students from the same families. Among her alumni may 
be found one hundred and twenty in groups of two, three and four 
in a family. Three families have sent four sons each ; eight have 
sent three each, and forty -two have sent two each. Ten have grad- 
uated whose fathers were students here before them. Thirty- six of 
the graduates came from other colleges to finish their course here, 
and thirty-two who have left Marietta have received degrees else- 
where. It is believed that no student has been admitted here from 
another college who did not bring the customary papers. 

The following alumni have been missionaries : John F. Pogue, 
Sandwich Islands; Ira M. Preston, Africa; Nathaniel H. Pierce, 



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American Indians; Jackson Gr. Coffing, Turkey; John H. Shedd, 
Persia; John P. Williamson, American Indians; Charles A. Stanley, 
China ; William L. Whipple, Persia. Andrew J. McKim went to 
South America under the Seamen's Friends Society. 

The following have been professors in colleges : Erastus Adkins, 
Shurtleff College, Illinois, and acting professor at Marietta; E. B. 
Andrews, Marietta College ; George R. Rosseter, Marietta College ; 
R. A. Arthur, Ohio University; George H. Howison, St. Louis 
University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Edward P. 
Walker, Marietta College ; David E. Beach, Marietta College ; John 
N. Lyle, acting professor at Marietta, and professor at Westminster 
College, Missouri; William G. Ballantine, Ripon College, Wisconsin, 
and Indiana University. 

Joseph F. Tuttle, D. D., has been president of Wabash College 
since 1862 ; General Willard Warner was United States Senator from 
Alabama ; Hon. Joseph G. Wilson was one of the Supreme Judges of 
Oregon, and member of Congress ; Hon. William Irwin is now Gov- 
ernor of California; Hon. Alfred T. Goshorn is Director- General of 
the Centennial International Exposition. 

-' The precise number of those who entered the army in the great 
war of 1861-65 can not now be given, but the relative number was 
large, both of graduates and undergraduates. Among those who 
lost their lives were the valedictorians of the classes of 1859. 1860 
and 1862, — Captain Theodore E. Greenwood, Lieutenant Timothy 
L. Condit, and Adjutant George B. Turner. 

HONORARY DEGREES. 

The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws has been conferred on 
eighteen gentlemen ; that of Doctor of Divinity on twenty-eight ; 
that of Doctor of Philosophy on one, and that of Master of Arts on 
thirty-eight. 

The following persons have received the degree of LL. D.: Hon. 
Peter Hitchcock, 1845 ; Hon. Samuel F. Vinton, 1847 ; Hon Gus- 
tavus Swan, 1851 : Hon. Reuben Wood, 1851 ; Hon. Edward D. 
Mansfield, 1853; Samuel P. Hildreth, M. D., 1859; Hon. William 
Dennison, 1860; Hon. William V. Peck, 1860; Hon. Noah H. 
Swayne, 1863 ; Hon. Aaron F. Perry, 1865 ; Hon. Joseph G. Wil- 
son, 1865 ; Hon. Chauncey N. Olds, 1869 ; Professor E. B. Andrews, 
1870; Professor T. G. Wormley, 1870; Hon. Edward F. Noyes, 



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1872 : Rev. Henry Smith, D. D.*, 1874 ; Hon. William Irwin, 1876 ; 
Emerson E. White, 1876. 

GRANTS AND ENDOWMENTS. 

The college has been sustained entirely by private generosity. It 
has never received from the State or Nation an acre of land or a dol- 
lar of money. It was not founded in consequence of any large gift 
from an individual or family, nor did the town vote, or the people 
pledge, any sum for the sake of securing the institution at that point. 
The first effort to raise funds was after the charter had been obtained, 
and this was to pay for the property which the trustees had pur- 
chased, at a cost of 88,000. This sum was secured at Marietta, 
three donors giving $1,000 each. 

This was the small beginning. But the founders and friends of 
the institution appreciated the importance of the enterprise, and 
their gifts have increased with their ability. Their example has had 
its influence upon others, and thus the college has retained its old 
friends and been gaining new ones. As illustrative of this continu- 
ance of interest, and the increase in successive donations from the 
same persons, a fact or two may be stated. Among the donors in 
the first effort made in the spring of 1833 to raise $8,000, were 
seven men who gave in sums ranging from $50 to $1,000, making an 
aggregate of $2,250. The total gifts to the college made by these 
seven gentlemen up to this time amount to $95,350, or over forty 
times the sum given at first. In 1847 a gentleman in Southern 
Ohio gave $50. In 1857 he gave $500. About ten years later he 
gave $5,000. It is by such men that Marietta has been sustained. 

An examination of the list of donations shows that one hundred 
and twenty persons have given each $500 and upwards; seventy- 
three have given $1,000 and upwards ; twelve have given $5,000 and 
upwards, and four have given $10,000 each and upwards. The 
largest single gift is $25,000. 

Most of the donations have been given for the general purposes of 
the college. And when made for a specified use, as for a building 
or the library, it was because of special need in that direction. Al- 
lusion has already been made to a donation of $5,000 to aid students 
having the ministry in view, which was made very early. Smaller 
sums have been added, but the fund has never become large. It has, 
however, furnished aid to a large number of young men who are now 
preaching the gospel, and has been of great service to the^college. 



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As early as 1834 an effort was begun to raise funds in tlie form of 
scholarships, but neither tben nor since has any countenance been 
given to tbe system of cheap scholarships. The tuition being then 
$25 a year, the donor of $100 might send a son, or one whom he 
might adopt for the purpose, to the institution for four years. And 
a larger sum given would entitle the donor to free tuition for a pro- 
portionate number of years. In later years some permanent scholar- 
ships have been endowed on the basis of $1,000 each, the occupants 
for the time being receiving free tuition. The same principle is 
recognized in these as in the temporary scholarships. They were 
never intended as an investment from which the holder might re- 
ceive a money income, the student paying to him the tuition instead 
of to the college treasurer, but were given to benefit the institution, 
and at the same time aid deserving young men in securing an educa- 
tion. There are now twenty-eight such permanent scholarships, 
each one entitling the occupant to gratuitous tuition. The price 
of tuition was $25 a year to 1857, then raised to $30, and in 1871 
to $38. The interest of $1,000 is more than the tuition fee, but 
much less than the cost of tuition. The selection of the student is 
in nearly all cases left to the college. There are also two scholar- 
ships of the same amount, the income of which is used in aiding 
such students as may need assistance. 

For some years prizes have been awarded to students in the three 
upper classes, who have been distinguished for excellence in general 
scholarship during the previous year. Usually the sum of $60 has 
been divided between the best two in each of these classes. Two 
small prizes for excellence in Declamation have been given to two 
students in each of the Sophomore and Freshman Classes. Re- 
cently Rhetorical prizes have been awarded to the two or three in 
the Junior Class who have excelled in that . department. These 
prizes are but partially endowed as yet, though they have been 
regularly paid. 

In 1843 an association was formed in the East, under the name 
of the " Society for Promoting Collegiate and Theological Education 
at the West." Marietta was one of the institutions whose circum- 
stances led to the formation of the society, and was one of the first 
five taken under its patronage. Aid was received through this 
source for about twenty years, and the cause of education owes great 
obligation to that society. 

The college is too young to have received much aid in the form of 



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legacies, but a beginning has been made. Two bequests have been 
made of 35,000 each, both from Columbus, in this state. Mrs. Mary 
Keyes left this sum to found five scholarships for furnishing gratui- 
tous instruction to young men preparing for the ministry, and Mr. 
Daniel T. Woodbury bequeathed a like amount for the general endow- 
ment fund. 

In a number of instances information has been received that gen- 
erous persons have made testamentary provision for the college; and 
from the character' of the testators and their warm attachment to 
this institution, there is no reason to doubt that their generous pur- 
poses will be carried into execution 

Allusion has already been made to the warm interest manifested 
in the college by the people of Marietta and the immediate vicinity. 
x\t its founding they gave generously, according to their ability, and 
each succeeding decade has witnessed a large increase in their bene- 
factions. Their gifts have amounted to $163,000. 

What has been said of the people, where the college is located, 
may be as emphatically said of the corporation to whom the manage- 
ment of its affairs has been intrusted. The institution has been to 
them from the first a foster-child. They have regarded themselves 
appointed not merely to manage and control, but to nourish and 
strengthen. They have encouraged benefactions in others by mak- 
ing them themselves. Their various gifts amount to the sum of 
S135,000. 

xillusion has already been made to the noble benefaction which 
the alumni nave made to the college in the erection of the Library 
building. This was completed in 1870, at a cost of $22,500. If to 
this be added ^he cost of fitting up the two rooms for the libraries of 
the literary societies, which was borne by the undergraduates, aided 
by the alumni, the whole expense may be put at $25,000. The 
class of 1871 gave, as a parting gift, on commencement day, $1,300 
for the endowment of a class scholarship. The various gifts from 
alumni and other students probably exceed $30,000. And since 
this sketch was begun a new alumni movement has been inaugurated, 
with every prospect of success — the founding of an Alumni Profes- 
sorship. The eflort originated with the Marietta College Club of 
Cincinnati, whose members manifest a degree of enthusiasm and lib- 
erality which can hardly fail to stimulate their fellow alumni to a 
hearty and successful co-operation. 



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The following is a list of donors to the amount of $1,000 and up- 
wards : 



Douglas Putnam $46,800 

John Mills 21,700 

Noah L. Wilson 13,850 

Charles W. Potwin 10,000 

Benjamin B. Gaylord 6,600 

Mrs. Mary Keyes 5,800 

Samuel Train 5,000 

Preserved Smith 5,000 

Daniel T . Woodbury 5,000 

Wm. P. Cutler 5,000 

A. J. Warner 5,000 

Francis C. Sessions 5,000 

Samuel P. Hildreth '. 4,100 

Jolin C. Calhoun 3,800 

Samuel Shipman 3,675 

Thos. W. Williams 3,600 

Loyal Wilcox 3,500 

President I. W. Andrews 3,000 

David C. Skinner 2,925 

Wm. K. Putnam 2,800 

Nahum Ward 2,300 

John Newton 2,100 

Eev. L. G. Bingham 2,000 

Jonas Moore 2,000 

David Putnam 2,000 

Wm. Slocomb 2,000 

Anson G. Phelps 2,000 

Mrs. Frances A. Morgan 2,000 

Eev. Wm. Van Vleck 2,000 

Cornelius B. Erwin 2,000 

Prof. John Kendrick 2,000 

Eufus E. Dawes 1,600 

Beman Gates 1,500 

Anselm T. Nye 1,500 

Elizur Smith 1,500 

John Bradley 1,500 

Wm. Sturges 1,475 



Eev. Dr. Joseph Eldridge 

and family $1,400 

Wm. A. Whittlesey 1,400 

Prof. J. L. Mills 1,350 

Joseph Perkins 1,300 

J. Munro Brown 1,300 

Winthrop B. Smith 1,300 

Prof E. B. Andrews 1,230 

George Dana 1,100 

Marcus Bosworth 1,100 

W. W. Wickes 1,100 

Silas Slocomb 1,100 

Samuel Stone 1,000 

Samuel Williston 1,000 

President Henry Smith 1,000 

Eobert Hamilton 1,000 

Wm. Johnson 1,000 

A. T. Goshorn 1,000 

A. H. Hinkle 1,000 

L. C. Hopkins 1,000 

John Field 1,000 

Cutler Laflin 1,000 

LeGran d Lockwood 1 ,000 

W.J. Breed 1,000 

E. M. White 1,000 

Wm. Shaffer 1,000 

Henry Stanley 1,000 

Timothy W. Stanley 1,000 

Eev. Dr. Geo. M. Maxwell.... 1,000 

Douglas Putnam, Jr 1,000 

Henry C.Brown 1,000 

E. C. Dawes 1,000 

Wm. Thaw 1,000 

Wm. E. London 1,000 

Dr. and Mrs. A. D. Lord 1,000 

Mrs. Eobert Hamilton 1,000 

Mrs. John Mills 1,000 



COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS. 

"The First Annual Report of the Trustees of Marietta Collegiate 
Institute" was published in August, 1834, and the "Second Annual 
Report of the Trustees of Marietta College' in September, 1835. 
The first catalogue of the officers and students was lor the college 
year 1837-8, and the annual issue has been continued. A list of the 
alumni (in English) was published with the annual catalogue for 
1844-5. The first Latin triennial was published with the catalogue for 
1846-7; and the triennial has been issued regularly since that. 

The laws of the Collegiate Institute were printed in 1834, and the 
laws of Marietta College in 1840, with a catalogue of the library — 



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the latter occupying forty-two pages. Another edition of the laws 
was printed in 1852. A catalogue of the college library was pre- 
pared in 1857 by Tutor B. P. Walker, and printed. It occupied one 
hundred and sixty-six pages, the number of volumes being nine 
thousand A card catalogue is kept of all additions. 

In 1850 the Society of Inquiry published their constitution and 
by-laws, with a catalogue of members, and catalogues of their library 
and cabinet. A catalogue of the Psi Gamma Society was published 
in 1861. ' 

The inaugural addresses of the three presidents were published : 
President Linsley having been inaugurated July 25,1838; Presi- 
dent Smith, July 30, 1846, and President Andrews, July 26, 1855. 
The address by Rev. Thomas Wickes, in behalf of the trustees, is 
printed with the inaugural of President Andrews. 

The exercises at the Twenty-fifth Anniversary, June 27, 1860, 
were published in a pamphlet of sixty pages. It contains the his- 
torical address by the president, with remarks by Rev. Dr. D. Howe 
Allen, one of the first professors, and by Hon. William Dennison, 
the Governor of the State ; also, various speeches at the dinner by 
trustees, alumni and others. 

Many of the addresses and orations delivered before the college or 
its societies have been published. Among them are the following: 
Pr'^fessor E. Ballantine, Literary Societies, Literary Character of the 
Bible, 1840; Rev. L. W. Seeley, Literary Societies, 1851; Rev. 
President Charles White, Literary Societies, Characteristics of the 
Present Age, 1852; Hon. W. S. Groesbeck, Literary Societies, The 
Scope of Human Governments, 1855; Rev. W. W. Andrews, Society 
of Inquiry, The Work of the Church in America, 1855; President 
Andrews' discourse on Tutor A. M. Washburn, 1860; Hon. Al- 
phonso Tafb, Literary Societies, 1861 ; President Andrews, Phi Beta 
Kappa Society, The American College, 1869; Hon. Willard Warner, 
Alumni Address, 1860; James Q. Howard, Esq., Alumni Address, 
Art Education in America, 1871 ; Rev. W. G. Andrews, Alumni 
Address, The Relations of the Scholar to Labor and Capital, 1872; 
Hon Joseph G Wilson, Alumni Address, 1873.* 

'•The Marietta Collegiate Magazine" was begun in June, 1854, 
and continued through three volumes of nine numbers each. "The 
Marietta Collegiate Quarterly"' (published by the Senior class) be- 

*Judge Wilson died very suddenly a few hours before his address was to 
have been delivered. The address and the proceedings of the alumni were 
published by the alumni. 



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gan in November, 1865 Only one volume was issued. The "Mari- 
etta Olio' was started in November, 1872, and is still continued. 
After the first volume it was styled "The College Olio." It is pub- 
lished by the two literary societies. 

The faculty have had little time for the preparation of text-books 
or other works connected with education, though they have written 
a number of articles for journals, and divers educational addresses 
have been published. President Smith translated and edited the 
Homeric Lexicon of Crusius while connected with the college ; and 
President Andrews has recently published a Manual of the Consti- 
tution of the United States 

COLLEGE STATISTICS. 

Tables. have been prepared, showing the statistics of attendance 
in the preparatory department and in college from the college year 
1837-8 to the year 1875-6, inclusive. No catalogue was published 
prior to the year 1837-8. Some statistics have already been given 
of the residences by states of the graduates. Tables have also been 
prepared (not here printed) giving the residences of the college 
students by states on each catalogue. From these it appears that 
Virginia (including West Virginia) and New York are represented 
on twenty- nine of the thirty-nine catalogues, Indiana on twenty-five, 
Kentucky and Connecticut on twenty-one, Massachusetts on twenty, 
Pennsylvania on nineteen, Michigan on fourteen, Illinois on twelve, 
Iowa and Vermont on eleven, Mississippi on ten, Missouri on nine, 
Alabama, Minnesota and New Hampshire eight, Arkansas six, 
Louisiana, Tennessee and Wisconsin four, Delaware and the District 
of Columbia three, Florida and South Carolina two, Kansas and 
Texas one, Foreign Countries on nine. 



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Statistics of Attendance in the Preparatory Department. 



Year. 


i 
1 

2 

36 

46 
30 
36 
66 
80 
118 
125 


Year. 


S 

r 

Ph 


Year. 


f 

1 


Year 


a, 
Ph 


Year. 


f 


1837 

1838 

1839 

1840 

1841 

1842 

1843 

1844 


1845 

1846 

1847 

1848 

1849 

1850 

1851 

1852 


151 

117 

107 

109 

89 

79 

50 

50 


1853 

1854 

1855 

1856 

1857 

1858 

1859...... 

1860 


60 
30 
22 
38 
40 
33 
40 
51 


1861 

1862 

1863 

1864 

1865 

1866 

1867 

1868 


54 
47 
56 
74 
85 
100 
102 
92 


1869 

1870 

1871 

1872 

1873 

1874 

1875 


73 
100 
116 
119 
107 
117 
100 









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MARIETTA COLLEGE. 

Statistics of Attendance and Graduation. 



Year.* 



1838. 

1839. 

1840. 

1841. 

1842. 

1843. 

1844. 

1845. 

1846. 

1847. 

1848. 

1849 

1850. 

1851. 

1852. 

1853. 

1854. 

1855. 

1856. 

1857., 



Undergraduate 
Classes. 



s 


i 

o 

s 

o 


.2 
*S 




11 


15 


15 


4 


14 


15 


18 


7 


13 


16 


11 


14 


10 


12 


9 


9 


15 


7 


10 


9 


11 


14 


8 


10 


7 


14 


14 


6 


10 


7 


12 


13 


19 


12 


11 


10 


11 


17 


10 


10 


12 


18 


15 


9 


9 


10 


12 


13 


19 


12 


7 


10 


17 


21 


11 


6 


10 


14 


18 


9 


19 


11 


11 


15 


22 


22 


8 


11 


10 


21 


15 


8 


9 


10 


17 


14 


8 


11 


10 


16 



45 


4 


54 


7 


53 


14 


40 


9 


41 


9 


43 


10 


41 


6 


42 


13 


52 


9 


48 


10 


49 


9 


44 


13 


48 


10 


55 


6 


1 


8 


56 


15 


63 


11 


54 


6 


50 


14 


45 


16 



Year, 



1858 

1859 

1860 

1861 

1862 

1863 

1864 

1865 

1866 

1867 

1868 

1869 

1870 

1871 

1872 

1873..... 

1874 

1875 

1876... ., 



Undergraduate 

Classes. 





i 
1 




22 


8 


13 


20 


18 


8 


16 


17 


13 


20 


21 


17 


19 


19 


13 


13 


15 


13 


12 


12 


13 


13 


13 


11 


21 


10 


8 


13 


20 


6 


24 


12 


15 


25 


19 


9 


16 


19 


13 


24 


17 


17 


35 


26 


13 


23 


31 


23 


21 


18 


30 


25 


15 


18 


22 


23 


14 



6 

10 

9 

12 

11 

13 

12 

8 

9 

7 

5 

13 

9 

13 

17 

10 

22 

22 

17 



49 
56 
55 
70 
62 
54 
49 
45 
48 
46 
56 
66 
57 
71 
91 
87 
91 
80 
76 



PQ 



6. 
10 

8 
11 
11 
12 
12 

8 
10 

7 

4 
13 

9 
13 
17 
10 
22 
22 
17 



* The years are college years, ending 1838, 1839, etc. 
Eleven have completed the Scientific or English course, viz: Two in 1839, 
and one in each of the years, 1843, 1845, 1848, 1849, 1851, 1855, 1858, 1872, 1876. 



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The following are the names of the members of the corporation 
and faculty as now constituted : 

CORPORATION. 

Israel W. Andrews, D. D., LL. D., President; John Mills, Mari- 
etta; Douglas Putnam, Harmar ; Anselm T. Nye, Esq., Marietta ; 
Rev. Addison Kingsbury, D. D., Zanesville; Hon. Simeon Nash, 
Gallipolis; Hon. William P. Cutler, Marietta ; Hon. William R. 
Putnam, Marietta; William Sturges, Esq., Chicago, Illinois; Rev. 
E. P. Pratt, D. D., Portsmouth; Samuel Shipman, Marietta; Rev. 
Henry M. Storrs, D. D., Brooklyn, New York ; Benjamin B. Gay- 
lord, Esq., Portsmouth ; Francis C. Sessions, Esq., Columbus ; Rev. 
George M. Maxwell, D. D., Cincinnati ; Hon. Charles W. Potwin, 
Zanesville ; Gen. Rufus R. Dawes, Marietta ; Hon Alfred T. Gos- 
horn, Cincinnati; Rev. Theron H. Hawks, D. D., Marietta; William 
J. Breed, Esq., Cincinnati; Rev. William E. Moore, D. D., Colum- 
bus; Col. Douglas Putnam, Jr., Ashland, Kentucky; William H. 
Blymyer, Esq., Cincinnati. 

FACULTY. 

Israel W. Andrews, D. D., LL. D., President, and Putnam Pro- 
fessor of Intellectual and Political Philosophy ; John Kendrick, 
LL. D , Emeritus Professor of the Greek Language and Literature ; 
George R. Rosseter, M. A., Professor of Mathematics and Natural 
Philosophy, and Lee Lecturer on Astronomy ; John L. Mills, M. A., 
Professor of the Latin Language and Literature ; David E. Beach, 
M. A., Professor of Moral Philosophy and Rhetoric ; S. Stanhope 
Orris, Ph. D., Professor of the Greek Language and Literature ; 
Thomas D. Biscoe. M. A., Professor of the Natural Sciences; George 
R. Gear, M. A., Principal of the Preparatory Department; Ira M. 
Preston, M. A., Tutor; William Holden, Librarian. 

TERMS OF ADMISSION. 

Candidates for admission to the Freshman class are examined in 
English Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic, Algebra through Quad- 
ratic Equations, three books of Geometry, Latin Grammar, Caesar's 
Commentaries, six books of the ^neid of Virgil, Cicero's Orations 
against Catiline, Greek Grammar, and four books of Xenophon's 
Anabasis. Additional Mathematics will be accepted as a substitute 
for a portion of the Greek. 



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For advanced standing, the candidate, whether from another col- 
lege or not, in addition to the preparatory studies, is examined in 
the studies to which the class which he wishes to enter has attended. 

No one can be admitted to the Freshman class till he has com- 
pleted his fourteenth year, or to an advanced standing without a 
proportional increase of age. 

Testimonials of good moral character are in all cases required, and 
those who come from other colleges must produce certificates of dis- 
mission in good standing. 



COURSE OF INSTRUCTION. 

The course of instruction occupies four years. The college year 
is divided into two terms or sessions. 

FRESHMAN CLASS. 

First Term. — Livy (Lincoln's); Latin Testament; Herodotus; 
Algebra (Loomis') ; History; Elementary Rhetoric. 

Second Term. — Horace (Odes, Satires and Epistles); Latin Test- 
ament; Latin Prose Composition; Xenophon's Memorabilia; Geom- 
etry (Ohauvenet's) ; Elementary Rhetoric. During the year : Writ- 
ten Translations, Compositions, Declamations. 

SOPHOMORE CLASS. 

First Term. — -Cicero de Senectute, and the Captives of Plautus ; 
Plato's Apology and Crito ; Glreek Testament; G-reek Prose Compo- 
sition (Boise's); Plane Trigonometry; Mensuration; Surveying; 
Navigation (Loomis'); Physiology (Hooker's). 

Second Term. — The" Select Letters of Pliny, and the Adelphi of 
Terence; The Prometheus of ^schylus ; Greek Testament; French; 
Spherical Trigonometry (Loomis'); Analytical Geometry (Howi- 
son's) ; Differential and Integral Calculus (Loomis'). During the 
year: Compositions, Declamations. 

JUNIOR CLASS. 

First Term. — Quintilian, book tenth ; The Agricola of Tacitus ; 
Orations of Demosthenes ; Greek Testament ; German ; Mechanics ; 
Astronomy; Rhetoric (Whately's). 






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Second Term. — Thucydides; Greek Testament; Natural Philoso- 
phy; Astronomy; Guizot's History of Civilization; Psychology: 
History of English Literature During the year : Compositions and 
Original Declamations. 

SENIOR CLASS. 

First Term. — Logic; Political Economy; Evidences of Christian- 
ity (Hopkins') ; Chemistry. 

Second Term. — Woolsey's International Law; Moral Science: 
Constitution of the United States (Andrews'); Mineralogy; Botany; 
Geology (Dana's). During the year: Compositions, Debates, Orig 
inal Declamations. 



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